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Tanners Humanities Center

Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center

Since 1988

The center has played a crucial role in bringing our campus and community together to analyze, understand, and enrich the human condition.

ABOUT THE CENTER

PUBLIC
OUTREACH

Community engagement opportunities that highlight how the humanities inform issues of public interest and inspire personal growth.

ACADEMIC
RESEARCH

Supporting faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student research and knowledge in the humanities is central to our mission.

EDUCATIONAL
ENRICHMENT

Learn more about the Center’s educational enrichment programs: Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops and Professors Off Campus.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Dr. Strangelove

Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire,...

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Tanner Lectures on Human
Values with DAVID DAMROSCH

Read More Wednesday, April 9 – Thursday, April 10, 2025

Tanner Conversation with LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI

Author of Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

Read More Tuesday, April 1 2025

The Importance of Being Earnest

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti...

Read More March 22, 2025
All Events

The Virtual Jewel Box Podcast

We share research, commentary, interviews, dialogue, and storytelling from across humanities disciplines.

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TANNER HUMANITIES NEWS

Uncertainty on an Uninhabitable Earth: David Wallace-Wells Reflection

Uncertainty on an Uninhabitable Earth: David Wallace-Wells Reflection Dec 01, 2023 Esther Mathieu The world will be what we make it. David Wallace-Wells is not a writer known for his optimism; his book, after...

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“Because I Love My People” — Tanner Center event with Min Jin Lee

“Because I Love My People” — Tanner Center event with Min Jin Lee Apr 27, 2024 If you were me in March 2020, you were looking for the biggest book left on your shelves...

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Remembering Bruce Bastian, 1948-2024

Remembering Bruce Bastian, 1948-2024 Jun 21, 2024 Bruce Bastian was a longtime supporter of the Tanner Humanities Center and his partnership was instrumental in furthering the center’s mission to provide public outreach and educational...

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Inaugural Games Humanities Symposium presents field-defining scholarship 

Inaugural Games Humanities Symposium presents field-defining scholarship  Sep 17, 2024 Robert Carson - Associate Director, Tanner Humanities Center A symposium on September 13–14 at Snowbird Utah brought together scholars from the University of Utah...

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat explores authoritarianism in Tanner Talk and faculty panel

Ruth Ben-Ghiat explores authoritarianism in Tanner Talk and faculty panel Sep 25, 2024 Robert Carson Associate Director, Tanner Humanities Center What makes a leader authoritarian, and how do they rule? This central question animates...

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Alice Dailey, author of Mother of Stories, discusses personal and academic varieties of death 

Alice Dailey, author of Mother of Stories, discusses personal and academic varieties of death  Oct 01, 2024 Robert Carson - Associate Director, Tanner Humanities Center The first Tanner Conversation of 2024-2025 was held on...

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An Evening with Great Books features old and new classics

An Evening with Great Books features old and new classics Oct 18, 2024 Robert Carson - Associate Director, Tanner Humanities Center Now in its second year at the University of Utah, Great Books in...

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“A Mind Can Be a Haunted House”: Carmen Maria Machado Visits the University of Utah

“A Mind Can Be a Haunted House”: Carmen Maria Machado Visits the University of Utah Oct 24, 2024 Audrey Bauman The first story I ever read by Carmen Maria Machado was not "The Husband...

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Percival Everett: Fiction, race, and philosophy

Percival Everett: Fiction, race, and philosophy Nov 05, 2024 Robert Carson - Associate Director, Tanner Humanities Center The works of Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California, feature satirical and ironic...

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Against Amnesia: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Against Amnesia: LaToya Ruby Frazier Feb 11, 2025 Vitasta Singh LaToya Ruby Frazier believes life is not to be "belittled or squandered"— both one's own life and the lives of others. The first work...

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